Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

Kate Atkinson

If there is no door to your dream, create one.

E'yen A. Gardner

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Neils Bohr

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

Dick Cheney

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Vicente Aleixandre

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Barack Obama

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Bill Cosby

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

Stafford Cripps

the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which has lasted a million years, she sang, love which prevails, and millions of years ago, her lover, who had been dead these centuries, had walked, she crooned, with her in May; but in the course of ages, long as summer days, and flaming, she remembered, with nothing but red asters, he had gone; death's enormous sickle had swept those tremendous hills, and when at last she laid her hoary and immensely aged head on the earth, now become a mere cinder of ice, she implored the Gods to lay by her side a bunch of purple heather, there on her high burial place which the last rays of the last sun caressed; for then the pageant of the universe would be over.

Virginia Woolf

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

Brian Molko

All diseases run into one. Old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld